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Derek Jacobi

"It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night."

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"It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night."

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Donna Grant

"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."

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Donna Grant

"Dread of night. Dread of not-night."

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Donna Grant

"I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights."

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Donna Grant

"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."

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Donna Grant

"You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long."

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Donna Grant

"The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night."

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Donna Grant

"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."

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Donna Grant

"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."

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Donna Grant

"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."

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Donna Grant

"I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again."

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Derek Jacobi
"It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization."

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Derek Jacobi
"Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react."

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Derek Jacobi
"One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant."

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Derek Jacobi
"I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people."

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Derek Jacobi
"I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it."

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Derek Jacobi
"There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another."

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Derek Jacobi
"My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!"

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Derek Jacobi
"Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on."

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Derek Jacobi
"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."

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Derek Jacobi
"He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age."

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